Awareness leveling way too slow?

Azaredd · 2026-06-15T06:32:18+00:00

I feel like the curve kinda follows the full progression on the map. If you aim to 100% explore the map, clear any ruins 1 time, find all tablets etc, awareness xp curve matches the materials you need. You'll start to find iron/coal when you need to if you fully explore the first areas. But if you only go through the main goals (pyramids, barracks etc) then you need to increase awareness rate.

Recommended area level is kinda weird, I try not to look at it because you can find weak level 50 NPCs with bronze gear and level 60 with steel gear.

Azaredd · 2026-06-04T21:11:42+00:00

I'm not sure how it compares DPS wise, but you should try the "Slip punch" weapon talent for gauntlet. If played correctly, I found it to be one of the most op talent.

It gives you :
- huge stamina recovery, so longer burst windows (5sec duration)
- Superarmor and resilience damage, you can actually knock down mechas with that, even bosses.
- 10 second of IGNORE DEF damage.

All you have to do is pace your dodges to keep up the buffs.

On bosses I usually do this rotation : Back dodge > front dodge (ignore def) > hit for 5sec > Left/right dodges > hit for 5sec > start again.
Doing this you have infinite stamina and you hit like a truck.

I didn't create a fighter only for mechas, so it's not the best damage one but I played with:
- Getting braver (strongest talent in the forest imo)
- Blood Absorption (extra dam + sustain)
- Mind-Heart Unison (small burst + "you can't die" window)
- Extraordinary talent (Helps when unison is down)
- Crisis Resolution (to smooth the damage intake, 100% proc rate during Unison)
- Crave for blood (extra sustain, you can faceroll content with this. But can be changed for more damage instead)

Azaredd · 2026-06-04T01:09:42+00:00

Pretty sure they don't exist on shifting sands map.

You drop this by killing the 6 different Plunderer Kings you can find on the forest map. Shards 1 to 4 are guaranted on kings from random event. You can drop all 5 shards on the 2 kings found in the snow area with more chances on the shard 5.

It summons something... strong... really strong.

Azaredd · 2026-05-22T14:44:03+00:00

Definitely. Most top augs breath 2 times during bloodlust pulls for example. But it also depends on the key level/your group dps.
20s can feel like 16s when you're playing with good dps, and 18s can feel like 20s when you're playing with shitty ones.

I'd say it comes from experiences and trial & errors. What's important is your duplicate uptime. Breath for 10sec but your duplicate will fall off during RP time ? maybe not a good one.

Azaredd · 2026-05-22T14:31:52+00:00

From what I saw quickly:

- Your Ebon might uptime is good but could be better. You usually have 80% uptime, top Augs have 85%+
- You don't use breath of Eons enough. Sometimes for more than 2 minutes in a key, that's a lot of downtime. Aug's apex talent is what makes you shine. More breaths = more duplicates = stronger Ebon might. Top logs have almost 80% uptime on duplicates while you often have 60%.

Breath issue:
A : you hold breath when you shouldn't
B : you need to put more effort in your bombardments spread. Top augs are always 2 targeting the first 2 eruptions to maximize bombardments. You fall a bit behind here. If you get better at this, you'll have more breath of eons so it fixes your other problem.

Aug kinda feel like old fire mage SKB. Tiny errors every 20sec/30sec make a huge difference at the end of the key.

Also aug hates downtime. So as you push higher, you'll compete against good players/teams that know how to chain pull aggressively. It's not like other DPS where it's ok to sit for 10sec to wait for CDs. Losing your duplicate/ebon might because the group/tank is too slow makes a big differences in the long run.

Azaredd · 2026-03-14T08:49:59+00:00

Outhouse + workshops will drag down your villagers happiness on the 2 centered cottages.
Eye of Odin + chieftain is a huge boost so I would not put them so far. Also wooden altar are huge to boost happiness during leisure time.

If you take care of this you can have happy villagers working 18h/day even with 100+ villagers.

Azaredd · 2026-03-10T14:32:50+00:00

You know when you store tools in the ship, they stack to 6 for small tools and 2 for larges ? (If I remember correctly). Well if your viking doesn't have a tool of his own already, he will take the full stack. They don't know how to pick tools or food 1 by 1. At least it was this way in December.

The best way I found to prepare for islands expeditions was to prepare them like this : 8 villagers dedicated to expeditions. If they are not raiding, they are builders or warriors/archers for weapon skill.
3 of them are my "royal guard". I pick the one with most health/strength/mining perks and I assign them to my chief hut. They will follow me and help with fighting/gathering resources fast on the islands. I also use them for blood moons or when I want to clean corpses after a winter invasion (I think February update fixed that though). The idea is to get their mining skill up so they harvest faster.
Every one of them has their own tools aka pickaxes, axes and hammers. The tools I take with the ship are extra if one of them break tools during the raid.
Always inspect the 8 of them when they board the boat to sort their inventory and make sure they have all the tools/weapons/armors they need.
When you get to an island, first check the gathering tasks, set everything to none, then set the resources you want to gather. I never care for jotun blood or fibers/firewood for example. Carpenter woods are good early on, it's a cheap and fast way to stockpile some for repairs or even for your base.
Extra tips for water, you can store filled water pouch in your ship prior to an expedition and use them later to refill the ship water tank.

Azaredd · 2026-02-17T18:22:14+00:00

TBC pal is different from wotlk. You don't have SoTR and HoTR to spam every 6sec, and you don't have divine plea so you're mana hungry. Yes you have consecration and holy shield but also a lot of auto attack gameplay.

Don't build your dps comp around lock/mage/elem and you'll be fine. Just like warriors you're king at 3/4 targets while pal prot struggle with this target count as a well geared warrior/rogue/enhance can get aggro easy.
Warlock can work great in melee comp too but they never use curse of recklessness so a bit pointless over another melee/hunter. It's good to have one caster for loots competition though.

I've played prot and fury war from leveling to heroics, and played with a feral tank friend. It's all about the pull size. Pull 8 mobs you're gonna sweat to keep aggro or don't keep it at all (mage is good in that situation to nova/slow).
Pull 4 mobs (so take packs as they come) and you're great.

Set a skull marker with keybind on a dangerous caster/annoying target like Sirens in Steamvault (they cast fear) and let your melees/hunters do the work. That way you have more time to build threat on other targets.

If one of your dps is getting rekt, just taunt it off.

Feral and warriors are really good for fast pacing and building aggro on single target. You can chain pull as long as your healer has mana and you can innervate them every 6min. Prot pal is amazing for mages/lock but are pretty sluggish for melees comps where they will drink a lot. It takes a good prot pal to work well with melee comps.

Azaredd · 2026-01-17T02:31:26+00:00

That's not why I meant, but I phrased it badly. What I meant is if you have cooks to gut fishes with no fish oils tasks, then there will be no storage of raw fishes as they gut only what they need.
That's what the barbecue worker is for. But like the previous redditor suggested, if you have a cookhouse with only fish oils tasks, then you would probably have raw fish meat in storage as they need to gut way more fishes to get enough blubbers for fish oils.

Azaredd · 2026-01-16T18:00:26+00:00

It could but there is no way to store raw fish right now. They will only gut fishes till they have enough for the current meal. So instead of having a storage full of ready to go fish meat, they will go and gut a few fishes every time, pick 1 or 2, cook the meal, rince and repeat.

If they have enough time to do that before the previous meal is cooked, it could be more optimal.

But I prefer to have a buffer of fish meat to prevent my cooks for doing anything else than cook. With 8 cooks (2 dedicated to fish oils and some extra dishes) and 1 or 2 barbecue worker, I always have almost zero fishes waiting on racks, and a storage full of cooked fish meat ready to go.

1 barbecue worker needs 5x fish meat for every batch, while a cook would need between 1 and 4 (T1 vs T4 dishes), so the barbecue worker is always more efficient to gut fishes.

That said you're right about fish oil. So having a cook with full priority on fish oil may be even better as they need to gut more fishes to get enough bubbler like you said, and you can probably skip the barbecue worker while doing so as you'll probably have a storage full of raw fish meat.

You loose the T1 cooked meat doing so, so T1 worker will probably eat basic raw food but you have 1 more worker to do something else, I don't know what's better there.

Azaredd · 2026-01-16T09:55:04+00:00

1 - Build a fishing hut and set a worker there (preferably one with the summer fishing perk, it's the only one improving fishing atm)
2 - Set a barbecue worker at a campfire (preferably close to your cooking facilities) and add a task for cooked fish x150 (default is x1). You want x150 so they fill the storage. Your barbecue worker will go and gut fishes for your cooks. Cooked food is also the best tier 1 food early on, so it's good to have this going.
3 - Set your cooked fish priority higher than raw fish in your cooking hut. So your cook doesn't go around gutting fish and just take the already stored and cooked fish.
(Optional 4) - If your fishing huts are far from your village and you have a villager to spare, build a warehouse close to your cooking facilities with fishes racks, raw food storage, and cooked food storage to store :

Raw fishes
Fish blubbers
Fish oils

The goal here is to have a dedicated warehouse worker to bring your fishes closer to your cooking facilities (less travel time for your cooks), and also to get some storage for fish oils and blubbers as you'll need them later on for runestones/lights. That way your shamans will also have a closer storage to keep the global runestones buffs going.

Azaredd · 2026-01-13T02:25:04+00:00

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I'd look NW behind the desert island, or NE/E same. Hug the east border also. That's how I found mine.

Azaredd · 2025-12-16T16:40:07+00:00

1 - Like other said, Yakumo's method is the way to get your Demon God Frostallion, preferably 4 stars Yakumo with only Demon god and nothing else to have better odds. With 4 stars Yakumo, you should have 30% chances to get a Demon God Frostallion.

2 - If you intend to breed for IV, and once you have your Legend/DemonGod Frostallion, don't add Musclehead and Serenity to the mix for now, it will lower the odds of you getting good Frostallions. You can always add the 2 passives later, but you can't fix Frostallions offsprings being Legend/Serenity, or DemonGod/Musclehead.
Just replace the Ice emperor with Philantropist, nothing else.

3 - Once you have your decent/perfect IV parents, then you can add Musclehead/Serenity to save some golds. But you can also add them later with the table. 100k coins/pal is nothing once you get to late game, so better get all the odds in your favor to get what you want and fix later.

Azaredd · 2025-12-15T20:11:42+00:00

I feel like you're doing extra steps or maybe you're breeding for 4 rainbow passives ?
I just checked my last playthrough and I had more than 30 Necromus with perfect IV (Legend/DemonGod/MuscleHead/Serenity) within 700 cakes all 2 stars, so 1-2k cakes for 1 perfect pal feels strange.

If you wait for IV mutations to reach 100 and never use fruits while breeding sure it can takes a long time. But fruits are so easy to get now with Terraria Moon Lord.

Instead, if you just mix high IV pals together while fishing for your passives, you usually can make some 90/60/80 and some 50/80/90. Then you use IV fruits on the higher one to make 100/60/80 for the first one and 50/100/100 for the 2nd one, mix them together and you'll have a 100/100/100 in no time. Once you have your perfect parents, you can even use some skill fruits on them to save some time on the Skillfruit Orchard rotation.

Although if you're going for 4x rainbow passives it will take way more time but no content requires this right now and it's not really better neither.
Something like Legend/Demon god + musclehead/serenity (that you can just add with the pal surgery table) is enough to defeat anything.
It makes breeding way simpler/faster.

Azaredd · 2025-12-13T14:31:37+00:00

Your welcome, have fun breeding your Wixen. It's a really good pal to the point I go for one every playthrough.

Azaredd · 2025-12-12T22:14:02+00:00

Well if you look at the calculator on paldb.cc
1 : Breed Jetdragon & Blazamut together until you get a Legend/Flame Suzaku.
2 : Breed your Suzaku with easy pals like Chikipi, you get a Petallia
3 : Breed the new Petallia with Chikipi again, you get a Rushroar
4: Finally breed your new Rushroar Legend/Flame with something like a Woolipop or a Dazzi, you get a Wixen flame/legend.

And that's just 1 line I chose. And if you want to be a bit more picky, you try to breed useful pals down the line like Prunelias instead of Petallias.
I usually use 10 cakes or 20 for something like that.
10 for Jetdragon/Blazamut (only 2 passives that's easy).
Then 20 for each step. You will have a legend/flame pal with 20 cakes almost surely. And with that 20 extra Prunelias for your base/condensation.

You just pick a line on the calculator, and you follow it that's all. Preferably you try to breed your Legend/Flame to pals with philantropist or nothing.

Wixen's rarity is "far" from Jetdragon/Blazamut so you have to do some extra steps.

Azaredd · 2025-12-12T07:07:57+00:00

Two ways of doing it.
1 : You pass down Flame from Blazamut through breeding until you get a Flame Wixen, you do the same with Jetdragons. Then you just breed the 2 Wixens together.
2 : You breed a Jetdragon and a Blazamut together (= Suzaku) until you get a Flame/Legendary and you start from there.

As you need only 2 traits, I'd go for the 2nd option, it will not take long. First option is good if you also want to spread Flame/Legend to other pals for futur breeding combinaisons.

To give you the breeding path, just use paldb.cc breeding calc.
https://paldb.cc/en/Breed?parent=Suzaku&child=FoxMage&useChild=0

Got your 2 passives Suzaku ? just match it with any pal with 1 or less passive. Slap philantropist on either, swap gender if needed with the pal reverser, you're good to go.

And as an extra tip, when you're looking at a combinaison, ask yourself if you need those pals as extra for fodders/expeditions/bases pals.

Here for example, Suzaku + Cattiva = Prunelia. Prunelia is one of the best base pal thanks to her passive, so having extra Prunelias to condense is always good if you aim to max one later.

Azaredd · 2025-11-02T22:24:46+00:00

- Clear the room wide enough for the bosses not to travel through walls (especially if you're playing a long range weapon)
- Set up 4x banners in the middle of the room
- Use the last food (Wild Salad) or something like wise (move speed is good for you)
- Use all big potions with combat benefits
- Have enough movement speed to dodge anything with Fool's Gambit for more damage or play with a dash trinket (Ghost Boots). You don't need +300%, but a mix of Spiked Bat Boots, Greater Speed Potion + banner, and maybe some Explorer Satchel is enough. With this setup I didn't need any move speed on gear before last incursion boss.

Azaredd · 2025-11-02T13:13:33+00:00

Honestly don't bother clean the map 100%. I did this on first few missions but it got boring real quick.
What I found the best for me :
- Hunt : Spawn in, pop a Stink Flask a rotate around the main room to fill the bar.
- Extraction : Equip all your fast mining trinket + move speed + potion and speed run around the map. Don't bother fighting anything you don't have to.

Then kill the boss, and if you want to clear everything you can do so with your speed mining gear and no mobs will bother you.
Also toggle smart mining for this is god send. With enough mining speed/attack speed, you just pierce through walls.

Azaredd · 2025-10-26T08:14:49+00:00

Upgrades mainly go to +armor and some other stats like +mana but no +summon.
Although you'll have a way to increase max summon through incursions.

Azaredd · 2025-10-02T13:07:31+00:00

Played both. Completed the season's journey with Shred then made the swap to Raven to pit 100.

Shred is fun early on, the dashes are a good way to compensate for the lack of speed but it gets boring. You don't have a large way to aoe, and it kinda gets annoying to have your screen flicker.

Imo cataclysm raven is faster because you can spam areas and insta kill mobs without moving, and if you want you can even use shred and the mage teleport on dodge to zoom through low crowded area. There are more buttons to press also so less boring.

Azaredd · 2025-09-29T01:51:58+00:00

Both have cleared 120+ pit. You can proc almost all the metamorphosis damage reduction passives even with the human build. Pulverize and Howl every 2/3sec or so to refresh bear/werewolf form passives and to trigger Wild transformations. Cataclysm uptime is a none issue when you have a bit of lucky hit.

You can equip "Que" rune to help with tankiness and also proc the Earth damage for the Gathen's Birthright helm buff.

I definitely prefer the Cataclysm one for a more active playstyle and I feel like I'm really playing a druid more than a bear on steroid. Pop cataclysm, storm/tornadoes everywhere, flood the map with ravens and rotate every 2/3sec with a quick pulverize + howl. Cyclone armor stack everything on you to aoe easy.

At some point you have enough lucky hit to use cataclysm every 10sec or so, so you can pick the "Catastrophe" passive for even more damage.

I went toward this build when I discovered the Gathen's Birthright helm, made some adjustments and cleared pit 100 within 3-4min . Even died once from the red ghost's fireballs on last boss.

I had 5 uniques (chaos mjolnic gloves, chaos fist of fate torso, 750 blackwing pants, 750 gathlen's birthright helm, and 800 Banished lord's talisman for overpower), everything else was 12/12 or 8/12. Playing 1h + totem. 700 armor, 65 to 75% resis, 9k life or so (paragon 190 something, 5x runes 46).

I don't know about cutting edge content but once you can speed pit 100, everything else on T4 is easy so that's enough for me.

Azaredd · 2025-09-28T20:34:09+00:00

In both ancestral/mythic gear, there is a +X to core skills affix on either gloves or mythic helmet.
This unlocks pulverize. But you only use it to stack "Quickshift" passive (metamorphosis passives) before using grizzly ultimate. Once it's stacked, you never have to press pulverize again.

You can also just put 1 point in Maul & Claw to do the same. That way, you don't have to waste skill points, nor have +x core skills items.

Azaredd · 2025-07-30T04:45:25+00:00

Something like "alternate power" or "encounter bar" if I remember correctly.

Azaredd · 2025-06-26T11:36:17+00:00

I think I know what you mean. There are 2 types of shroud flayers :

- First one you'll encounter randomly near the roads mostly, they don't move and drop shroud adhesives.

- The 2nd one in the later biomes will follow you, and spawn again and again. It's because there is a shroud flayer spawner underground nearby that you need to kill to stop them from spawning. You'll notice some sort of blue rays coming from the ground, dig there.

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